The most important consequence of the agricultural revolution was not that farming became more efficient. It was that most people were liberated from the necessity of farming, allowing entirely new kinds of economic and cultural life to emerge. Likewise, the most important consequence of the AI revolution may not be that intelligence production becomes more…
Billionaires A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that across the 11 states sampled, Amazon, the country’s largest company by revenue, has 12,346 workers on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and 11,338 relying on Medicaid. That was nearly triple the number of Amazon employees in need of federal assistance compared to 2020, when…
Anglo-futurism is only an aesthetic cover-up for a bleak amoral future.
“Based on the numbers we know, that’s absolute batshit”
About 10 or so years ago I was privy to the mechanics of a prominent left-wing party here in NZ. The single thing that stuck out: they were afraid of winning, because that meant they had to be The Man. It is very hard to be The Man when you’re identity is tied up in…